Ok, so it looks like I was bored, and so far I haven't seen anybody else try this so why not, right?
As the owner of a Sierra Wireless AirCard 860 (UMTS/HSDPA) and an HTC TyTN (UMTS/HSDPA), I figured I could be the first to compare different types of PC data connections.
Anecdotally, it seemed like the TyTN USB-tethered connection was roughly the same speed as the direct PC-Card connection, and the TyTN tethered over Bluetooth definitely seemed slower, but it was time to confirm.
For all tests, I used Cingular's ISP.CINGULAR APN, and I logged in as [email protected]. There was no proxy server used at all. Also, I disabled all apps on my PC that might try and hijack the data connection and disconnected WiFi and wired ethernet connections before getting started.
For my benchmark, I ran the 600k test from DSLReports.com
Finally, all tests were run within a 45-minute period at my home office desk in the Boston area (I had a good 3G connection for all tests).
So the results:
Siera Aircard 860
11:25pm 634 kbs
11:26pm 559 kbs
11:27pm 651 kbs
11:28pm 737 kbs
11:29pm 646 kbs
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Avg: 645 kbs
HTC TyTN (USB Tether)
11:41pm 585 kbs
11:42pm 737 kbs
11:43pm 748 kbs
11:44pm 648 kbs
11:45pm 520 kbs
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Avg: 648 kbs
HTC TyTN (Bluetooth 1.2 Tether)
12:06am 307 kbs
12:08am 296 kbs
12:09am 312 kbs
12:10am 275 kbs
12:11am 308 kbs
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Avg: 300 kbs
So what did I learn from all this? Statistically, there was no difference in speed between the PC-Card and the Tethered USB connections. Also, as expected, the Bluetooth connection was significantly slower.
Other conclusion: I really can't justify keeping the PC-Card 3G plan anymore! I'll be giving up simultaneous Internet-on-PC and phone connectivity, but at a $59.99/mo savings? I think it's worth it!
What about using a Bluetooth 2.0 adapter on the PC?
I didn't have a BT 2.0 card to test with, but I doubt it will make any difference -- the TyTN doesn't support EDR...
I should also note that I've seen significantly higher speeds than reported in the test, but this is pretty indicative of how the different configurations behave.
I've cancelled my data card plan effective 9/25. If somebody wants to lend me a card between now and then, I'm happy to try it...
I've noticed the following problem:
When trying to download (file copy/video play) from my LAN to the HD, download speeds maximum is about 340 kbps (LOL...that's like EDGE) . With the same setup (wireless "G" router) I can download on the HD from internet with speeds 2 000+ kbps. LAN operations between my PCs/laptops are @ 60 000 kbps wired and 20 000 kbps wireless (using the same setup). To access my LAN from the HD I'm using Resco Explorer....and at that 340 kbps speed it's not possible to watch movies from my LAN. No such problem with my other PDA (iPAQ HX4700) which is not even "G" but "B" device - speed is about 3 000 kbps. Can anyone confirm this and suggest a solution? Can anyone watch movies from LAN encoded with more than 400 kbps?
p.s.: Speeds are measured using DU Meter (for PC)
p.s. 2: Same low (340 kbps) speed with another wireless router
kokopipi said:
I've noticed the following problem:
When trying to download (file copy/video play) from my LAN to the HD, download speeds maximum is about 340 kbps (LOL...that's like EDGE) . With the same setup (wireless "G" router) I can download on the HD from internet with speeds 2 000+ kbps. LAN operations between my PCs/laptops are @ 60 000 kbps wired and 20 000 kbps wireless (using the same setup). To access my LAN from the HD I'm using Resco Explorer....and at that 340 kbps speed it's not possible to watch movies from my LAN. No such problem with my other PDA (iPAQ HX4700) which is not even "G" but "B" device - speed is about 3 000 kbps. Can anyone confirm this and suggest a solution? Can anyone watch movies from LAN encoded with more than 400 kbps?
p.s.: Speeds are measured using DU Meter (for PC)
p.s. 2: Same low (340 kbps) speed with another wireless router
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if you are using the default memory card that came with the phone, it is only a class 2. the write speed isn't spectacular, this may not be the reason. but it's the only variable i see right now. since your can download stuff to your phone from web at good speeds. i think it's more of a problem with the machine that is "uploading" or hosting the video. check the upload speed of that machine.
I think the memory has nothing to do with the problem. And I've tried with different host machines - the same result.
Slow network speed through WIFI
I have to same problems on my HD. I am using a home server at home which holds all of my videos. When connecting to it and watching a video with my old Eten X800 everything works fine and runs smoothly. But doing the same on my HD results in an unwatchable video. If I copy and paste this video on my mem card on the HD the video runs smoothly. There are some strange things going on with the WIFI speeds on the HD
Anyone worth investigating this issue?
Yeah... the strange thing is LAN speed is much lower than Internet speed using same network equipment
do better help me to help you, can you give me the numbers again in the follow format (some of them were missing from your original post)
Internet->Host:
Host->Internet (may not be relevant, but give it anyway):
Internet->HD:
HD->Internet:
Host->HD:
HD->Host:
arrows indicating direction of the traffic (ie. downloading or upload).
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do better help me to help you, can you give me the numbers again in the follow format (some of them were missing from your original post)
Internet->Host:
Host->Internet (may not be relevant, but give it anyway):
Internet->HD:
HD->Internet:
Host->HD:
HD->Host:
arrows indicating direction of the traffic (ie. downloading or upload).
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Internet->Host: 7825 kbps (currently)
Host->Internet (may not be relevant, but give it anyway): 506 kbps
Internet->HD: 1560 kbps (currently)
HD->Internet: can't measure
Host->HD: 340 kbps
HD->Host: 340kbps
Also
Host->another PC 60 000 kbps (wired)
another PC->Host 60 000 kbps (wired)
Host->Laptop 20 000 kbps (wireless)
Laptop->Host 20 000 kbps (wireless)
The Host could be PC/another PC/Laptop - the results concerning the HD are identical, which means the problem is not from the Host nor the network setup.
Did you check the power saving settings in the WiFi parameters ?
Coude said:
Did you check the power saving settings in the WiFi parameters ?
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YEAH!
it could be toggled/switched on "better performance" for better speed and "best performance" for g protocol. But the device will be hotter!
Coude said:
Did you check the power saving settings in the WiFi parameters ?
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These settings affect both Internet and LAN performances but Internet speed is OK and LAN speed is slow. And yes, I did play with the settings - results are the same. (because I'm 2-3 meters away from the wireless router). I'll be glad if someone with HD, actually tests a connection between his HD and a PC in a LAN and not just giving "blind" suggestions. What I want to know is if it's a problem with all HDs or just my device is faulty.
kokopipi said:
Internet->Host: 7825 kbps (currently)
Host->Internet (may not be relevant, but give it anyway): 506 kbps
Internet->HD: 1560 kbps (currently)
HD->Internet: can't measure
Host->HD: 340 kbps
HD->Host: 340kbps
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the nerd in me just want to go to your house and troubleshoot this for you in person. LOL... anyway...
what is the file you used to test in each case? the reason i'm asking is that some files are more compressed than others, and the speed we see is the NOT the raw speed -- the capability of the wifi card. but the combined speed of the CPU processing power and the network speed.
long story short, if you are downloading, the data is broken up and transfered piece by piece -- a movie is broken up and transfered bit by bit. depending on the file, the receiver side needs to process these bits and recombine them back together. it's much easyer to recombine a webpage, text file or equivalent. but mp3s, rar/zip or movies are already compressed/encoded with special algorithm, so the receiver processor needs to chew through these data to recombine them, so it won't accept faster than it can "chew".
of course this may not be the reason for your problem at all, but try transferring a large text file (copy and paste text from a website to notepad and c+p over and over, till you have a ~ 10MB txt file).
Even on copy files (not trying to play them, hence no decompression) just copy from PC to HD, no matter what the file type is, the speed is that - 340 kbps. Why don't you just try it yourself?
Take a look at his article: http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=6440
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Take a look at his article: http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=6440
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Does it really improve speed? I find WIFI a bit slower with the yweak installed.
kokopipi said:
Even on copy files (not trying to play them, hence no decompression) just copy from PC to HD, no matter what the file type is, the speed is that - 340 kbps. Why don't you just try it yourself?
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With my HD the same slow speeds. Tried several different hardware. Only HD is slow as hell. WIFI speed tweak does'nt do much, btw.
Some speed results:
WIFI Setting Best Battery / Resco Explorer 7.05: 45 KB/s
WIFI Setting Best Performance / Resco Explorer 7.05: 300 KB/s
WIFI Setting Best Performance / Total Commander/CE v2.51: 600 KB/s
So Resco does not work well with local shares. won't be using that anymore when c/p'ing. Altough speeds are doubling with TC it still is'nt fast imho.
Noone else tried this and encountered the same problem?
Ever find a fix for this?
I noticed the exact same problem last night when trying to play some TV shows over Wi-Fi from my PC. The file played OK for a couple seconds, then stalled
Using "Network Plugin for File Explorer" from HTC, I get an ave. speed of ±340kbps. The speed is the same whether I save to memery MC or phone memory. So the write speed of the MC has no bearing on the problem.
PS. Just tried on my work network with the same results...
Lucky you guys... I at best performance get ~120kb transfer and at optimal I get ~80kb transfer (copy) with Resco on wrt54gl with ddwrt on it
/edit: topic must be: 802.11.g
hi there,
got my HD2 (stock vodafone rom) on friday and until now i am very statisfied, everything set up to my needs etc.
Today i wanted to stream videos from my win7-pc to the HD2. Installed TCPMP and Resco Explorer. Everything works fine except for the buffer-lags. i experimented with the buffer settings A LOT but nothing worked out. then i wanted to copy a movie to my HD2 and realized the speed in Resco: 39.2 Kb/s (no typo)
Copying to phone memory or SD-Card is the same.
My router (Fritzbox 7170) tells me that my HD2 is connected with 54MBit/s.
I even installed the 802.11.n CAB though my router doesnt support this speed. didnt work out either.
any help plz?
excuse my english - im from europe.
Thanks in advance
ElveZ
/EDIT: problem solved. wifi energy plan was set to battery life... works with 700+Kb/s set to performance.
keep up the good work in here
No wonder!
Gah!! I thought my hd2 wifi router was doomed to be slow at no more than 40kb/sec ! I thought i over heated it up and caused it to be permanently slow. I went nuts jumping from rom to rom, radio to radio hoping to get the full internet speed,...until you post showed up! (No, 'Search' didnt help me out much this time, had to browse through 26 pages of irrelevant post)
Now im gonna try to "Best performance" and see if it makes any difference.
Right Sorry for posting here but I can not make a Thread :S
Ok I tested my HD2 on a few speed test sites and then tested on the same site my laptop.
right on
broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk
Laptop: 15000 kbps Download
720 kbps Upload
HD2 Apparently: 20000 kbps Download
AND 40000 kbps Upload (WTF)
and then I was like ok lets try another site
broadband.talktalk.co.uk/products/broadband-guide/broadband-speed-test
Laptop: 16000 kbps Download
720 kbps Upload
HD2: 22000 kbps Download
44000 kbps Upload
Right, why does my phone get such a massive upload ? or is this some sort of a bug or false reading
P.S.
The HD2 is connected to the same WiFi as the laptop as well as the 3G.
"The Internet transfer/download speed of my laptop via 3g ith my hd2 as the wifi router " = 40kb/sec, which is Junk, btw.
"The Internet transfer/download speed of my laptop with my 3g usb modem" = 300 - 600kb/sec which is the speed I wished my connection was, via the same 3g connection but using the hd2 as the wifi. And I hope that changing the "Power mode" of the hd2 wifi to "Best performance" (thanks for the OP for pointing it out) , i could reach the speeds as my 3b usb modem. Gonna do a bit of testing 1st...
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Rom - Miri dinik v17.0
radio - 2.11.50.20
I get about the same download with wifi and 3G. Normal? EDIT: Turning it to Performance mode tripled my speed via WiFi.
Munto: What browser on the HD2 are you using?
I'm using Skyfire
Yeh just tested with opera 10 and now the speeds are close the the PC's results.
I guess Skyfire is full of BS.
Munto said:
I'm using Skyfire
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Ah, Skyfire (and Opera Mini 5) uses server-side rendering so you won't get an accurate result. Skyfire's server downloads the pages, applies compression magic, and sends it to you, so the result is skewed by their probably ultra-fast servers. I think Opera 9.7 works the best for speed tests.
I just did an experiment to see how fast my internet is by 4 different ways.
(Sighing...) It seems that the internet speed is terribly slow even by wifi.
My phone:
T-mobile G1 with Froyo (check my signature for details).
My laptop:
HP MINI.
How did I do:
I connected my laptop by
1) Wifi (Verizon)
2) Froyo's USB Tethering
3) App: PdaNet
4) App: aNetShare
to compare their internet speeds.
Location:
Manhattan, New York.
Time:
around 4:00 PM
Friday, June 25, 2010
Results (all speeds read from SPEEDTEST.NET):
1) Wifi (Verizon):
DOWNLOAD: 2.96 MB/s
UPLOAD: 0.73 MB/s
2) Froyo's USB Tethering:
DOWNLOAD: 1.37 MB/s
UPLOAD: 0.19 MB/s
3) App: PdaNet:
DOWNLOAD: 1.80 MB/s
UPLOAD: 0.28 MB/s
4) App: aNetShare:
DOWNLOAD: 1.17 MB/s
UPLOAD: 0.25 MB/s
so slow~~~
buy better internet
My Galaxy S4 have the newest firmware from Samsung I9505XXUGNF1 (Kitkat 4.4.2). My router is a Asus RT-AC66U to which the S4 connects with max speed of 433 Mbps. My internet connection is 120 Mbps.
When I do a speedtest on the S4 I get results of ~110 Mbps, but when I'm downloading a file over LAN from the disk connected directly to the router I get download speed only of ~20Mbps (2.4 MB/s) which is very sucky!
My Laptop have only a N network card, and connects to the router with max 300 Mbps and when I download the same file I get over 7.5 MB/s!! (~65 Mbps).
Speedtest also shows results of over 110 Mbps...
I remember when the phone was new, and it had Android 4.3 (~10 months ago), I had LAN download speeds of over 9-10 MB/s...
I tried with different file managers like X-Plore and others, but it looks like it is not the app problem.
does somebody know what could be the problem?
Same problem on Galaxy Tab S (SM-T805)
The same is happening to my Brand new Galaxy Tab S.
It is connecting to the WiFi with 866Mbps, and files inside the network are download only at ~3 MB/s
does anybody have the same issue?
The problem is now solved by installing newest version of X-Plore v 3.66 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore
LAN download speeds went from ~2.5 MB/S to ~14 MB/s (I think that the limit is now the Hard Drive plugged to a USB 2.0 port on the router)
Thank you Lonely Cat Games for solving this issue!!